A person be in Court Without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. And residents of times in northeastern france accuse their belgian neighbors of illegally dumping garbage across the border. Hello welcome the latest developments and look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days to watch in the weekly here an r. T. International now for employees of Russias News Agency and have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputnik says to police also. Bull Office Although no reason was given as to why earlier. More details with my colleague. Because he touches been grabbing headlines in. Recent days have seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there thats been slightly over looked so 3 journalists who work for Russia Sputnik news agency in ankara have been released now off to several hours in Police Custody and thats because off to questioning no reason was found to hold them for i originally they actually went to the peace of their own free will because they wanted to find a complaint about an alleged attack that theyd been victims to in that own homes on saturday and after that nothing was heard from them until now of course which understandably sparked a concern from moscow all of the turkish authorities to intervene provide safety to the Russian Media and ensure that all circumstances are clarified its also said that the editor in chief of the Istanbul Bureau was also detained by police and what some are calling a flagrant violation of Media Freedom its now being confirmed that he too has been released and that happened hes also thought to have the offices of the bureau with even some reports saying that they made copies of hard drives from the computers the. Interest of the attacks in the homes of the euro zones sinister what details do we know about those well its alleged that they were not spontaneous attacks but rather a coordinated affair and that they were instigated by turkish nationalists there are some reports saying that these nationalists gathered outside the private homes of these 3 journalists some of them even allegedly broke into them and they were chanting nationalist slogans and they also according to some stories versions they allegedly accused these employees of betraying that country because they walk for the russian news outlet there are some stories reporting that they said phrases like turkey for the russian spies they were being thrown around but why would that be such a stupid. Towards these 3 while unfortunate some in tukey are blaming russia for the deaths of dozens of tucker soldiers and in a syrian asked strike recently thats despite the fact that on quest come out a very clearly said that we know that the Russian Air Force was in no way involved its also worth mentioning lets quickly listen in to another motive that was suggested i condemned last nights threats an attempted attack against 3 turkey sputnik journalists outside their homes in ankara also concerned that they were reportedly detained today over an. Authority to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents now the article in question is one in which 19 thought you 9 disputed referendum in the now tucker province of the toy is discussed with some suggestion that potentially it was rigged by the tux but i do want to say that that has not been confirmed or stop just as a motive for these attacks but it is briefly was just saying that this is unfortunate not the 1st time that sputnik has faced problems in a touch back in 2016 for example the news website was temporarily blocked by the countrys Telecom Regulator as this latest turn of events would of course be keeping an eye on it and see how it all plays out. Ok well we can discuss this and i with a journalist or me or him hes in tel aviv get even to me plenty of speculation about perhaps why these employees were detained from sputnik what are your thoughts on this story. Well obviously would be of concern to all journalists worldwide when. Brothers. Are being harassed in. Their homes broken into. Because the reason Vienna Convention regarding the door to diplomats and most countries respect. And borders. Ambassadors but for journalists. Not so clear and reporters are usually working a democracy of there are a host governments and if the media cannot operate just because their country of origin is now. The other country thats very wary some and perhaps turkey has something to hide the journalist seen you know he slammed these detentions t. J. Think that wanted to authorities its whole what sort of response would you expect from them. Well turkey is not a model country regarding the treatment of its own journalists thousands have been thrown in jail. Others dozens remain in exile because they know that they too will be imprisoned if they do go back so the fact that they also do it to foreign media is not surprising but there is one aspect here sometimes journalists where for a state run media it could be a Television Network a news site this is the case in israel in the United States in russia obviously too and they should be accorded the professional courtesy that all other reporters receive unless there is some knowledge of a crime in which case they would not have immunity but other than that they should be treated with professional. Respect and should not be harassed we do see the increasing tensions just recently between russia and the situation in syria is a coincidence. Well obviously it does have an impact 3 and one goes back to work cold war days when there was a teach for tat an american reporter would be detained in moscow in return for a soviet one being given the same treatment in washington happily we are. Long ago have been over these times and there shouldnt be any such retaliation and it should seize. Despicable treatment of journalists ok im in i still see tonight i was mirroring journalists that based on television thank you thank you. Now. Not only is she a turkey its not the only turkeys involved in the raf is the new migration crisis to with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in a day after turkey opened its borders to the large numbers of migrants refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border patrols before they cut through a barbed wire fence at the Turkish Border and effectively tore up and agreeing with brussels under which he took charge of millions of Asylum Seekers in return for Financial Aid on the other side creek police greeted the newcomers protege gas. But it. Was. This does all follow a flare up in tensions in syrias last remaining terrorist stronghold it lead province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation there after dozens of its troops were killed in the syrian airstrike that was targeting jihadists and then chris voiced concerns too about a fresh influx now of refugees fleeing instability from that region the hostilities of all but ruined turkeys deescalation agreement with russia written off as more of the story. It may be serious last remaining terrorist stronghold but seems to be killing the last remaining hope for peace or even a dialogue there. Turkey which once committed to working with russia to clear terrorists from the area is making a u. Turn yesterday i asked what is your goal if you want to set up a base you can set up a great draw your troops back from where we leave us face to face with the regime the. Ammons came after 33. 00 turkish soldiers were reportedly killed in a syrian airstrike on the ad lib according to the Russian Military the troops died while operating alongside terrorists and turkey failed to inform us that they were there the syrian army has every right to due to regular violations of the cease fire from inside the eclipse zone to neutralize terrorists so we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the Un Resolution and a cry for help and car a cold and emergency meeting with nato but i mean speculation that elians could be dragged into war nothing was offered more than words of support i dont think nato forces will enter syria in support of those whove gone the problem for turkey is the Nato Alliance principle is an attack on along as an attack on all but the turks might be risking trying to say able to attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think theres a lot of reluctance to see the need to come into direct confrontation with russia so theres quite a lot of powerful voices in nato who support the turks desire to see the syrian armys offensive stopped but im not sure they want to go beyond words and perhaps symbolic gestures so it seems ever gone deployed another tactic trying to force europes hand. What we did is we opened up orders because you promised us assistance but you did nothing and we would not close those doors because the e. U. Must keep its word just hours later crowds of migrants rushed to the frontier buy food by bus by train even risking their lives at sea. And not all of them off from syria im from afghanistan are going to greece for a better life the turkish government did right by opening the borders i have been in turkey since i was 3 im originally from afghanistan i want to go to greece because i want to move to europe Living Conditions are better there. But there wasnt exactly the warmest of welcomes on all for on the other side of the border greens even used tear gas in a bid to make the new comers abandoned their dreams of a better life is the damage must succeed where strengthening forces on land it is see Additional Police and army forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to safeguard our borders so a new wave of the refugee crisis in europe relations with russia again plunge into new lows nato lives in a spacious well maybe even more turbulence than ever before in just a matter of weeks as the guns manage to undo the progress of the last few years taken the world in a direction thats the exact opposite of the peace the turkish president still promises to restore its a serious escalation from the side of the turks who chose to intervene militarily in directly because they were doing so by proxy by training organizing mean. Terrorist groups fighting the syrian government. Of course for political reasons because the russians and the cities didnt want to leave this region lead to a direct confrontation. Presence and it is not legitimate its not sanctioned by any u. N. Resolution and it will consider that. Invasion order and occupation by foreign power or city and that it already. Meanwhile its been reported that he has shot down to Syrian Air Force planes in a day province. Said to have been carrying out to Counter TerrorCounter Terror mission when they were brought down by to jets the pilots though reportedly checked it to say that the towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of Illegal Dumping rubbish across the border weve got that story to come here on the weekly just after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon field well obviously you can get a feel of the world of politics for those of us im sure those also youre. Welcome back now the 1st phase of Julian Assange as u. S. Extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether he will be handed over or not we reached him a win further hearings are show jeweled the prosecution argued that a songe knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u. S. Military files without redacting names and other Sensitive Information and washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and also around that wiki leaks founder is also accused to encouraging the whistleblower and Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack the pentagons Computer Network while sandras defense team have sought however to counter those allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim that the publisher actually warned then secretary of state Hillary Clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names have paid in the documents theyve also stressed to the songes activities are protected by the principles of press freedom and his lawyers have strongly rejected the assertion that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon furthermore they say that extradition would undermine their Clients Health now during the hearing was held in a class cage he was also prevented from talking to his lawyers we heard from one of them. A songe was in a grave condition before court but during the extradition proceedings that got even worse he was being held in a seethrough room without any access to his lawyers so while he was being delivered to this room he was handcuffed 11 times he underwent a full body search twice and went through 5 different rooms before he finally entered the court moreover a songe couldnt take part in the Court Process he was deprived of any kind of interaction with his lawyers but he tried to reach out to be by passing a piece of paper through a gap in the glass box he was being held in and he was told off by the guard because of that i mean this is inconceivable how can a person be in Court Without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests throughout the week jean sound you supporters have been protesting outside the courts claiming the case is a test the fundamental press freedoms and according to on london and washington not to shoot the messenger celebrity supporters will subpoena can see. Him to go to admitted. In chos remaining straw the body had been for the release or so why arent we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which is in 20 minutes when 11 why arent we here talking in court about the war crimes yes thats the nature of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists. That is what we should be talking about you know courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what why is everybody here today theyre here because they dont believe mainstream america respected politician broadcast and former british and pay to watch got away about concerns surrounding the freedom of the press Julian Assange is a friend of mine and thats not the Julian Assange sitting in the. Courtroom of this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian our son who will receive the evidence which checks out as being true of high crimes and misdemeanors by the Us Government or any government for that matter including our own and then report it to the public there will be there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in a bulletproof box in woolwich ground for extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the United States trust me that wont have a Chilling Effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. Resins northeastern france a crying foul overflight a think theyre accusing their neighbors in belgium of illegally dumping trash across the border she wanted to report. This may look like part of a landfill site but its not all of this waste has been dumped here illegally were just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with what you can see mountains and mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby red its a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city at 1st we thought it was a regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. There for all and everything away to 2 groups of us about it yes but here we see its far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste its enormous as far as the pollution we dont know whats inside it could be tons of who knows what type of products chemicals. We dont know we see cleaning products classics what more could be hidden but it didnt take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from much if we did the arms looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place and i dont know it was from on turn up. Some of it if there is an invoice is it and why it im very curious isnt to have been some of s. Right when the company was contacted it denied any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued its been described as a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in redone the local. Association is also concerned. In the water source or close to this pollution so there can be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on its an acceptable and people are doing this regularly the Mayors Office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means. On a financial level this is impossible to solve we have a Small Community of 100000. 00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. A criminal investigation into this problem with cross border dumping has we know you print and customs agents h